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Amazon Editorial Review

Alleyn's friend, Nigel, stood near the centre of the stage. He had moved forward towards the wings, when a voice warned him to look out. An instant later, Inspector Alleyn hurled himself at Nigel, driving him backwards and out of the way of a falling object.

Journal Entry 2 by yorkshire-lass at Maidstone, Kent United Kingdom on Monday, June 20, 2011

Released 6 yrs ago (6/21/2011 UTC) at Maidstone, Kent United Kingdom

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This is on its way to disneyfreaksam as part of the International Alphabet Relay. Here is your "E" book Sam, hope you enjoy it.

Journal Entry 3 by disneyfreaksam at Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 23, 2011

Excellent. Thank you so much. I look forward to reading this one.

Journal Entry 4 by disneyfreaksam at Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Thursday, September 29, 2011

Enjoyable, cosy, mystery.

Journal Entry 5 by disneyfreaksam at Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Monday, October 03, 2011

This was better than I expected. The language was at times a bit difficult for me, maybe it's written in a bit older style? But that made it more interesting. And I loved how I kept changing my mind on the bad guy. The author kept me guessing until the end. Not the most exciting book but certainly enjoyable.

Off to the Netherlands now (after Christmas, as I do not want to brave the line at the post office right now).

Writing a review for this book is quite easy on the one hand: just write down that I liked the book. On the other hand that would make me feel like I didn't do the book justice, so I'll have to elaborate a bit more.

I liked the book: it is a bit like these English detective series I like to watch: A Touch of Frost, Inspector Dalgliesh, you know the kind. In general very polite, very correct, with very little violence whenever possible. That's what I expected of this book and that's what I got. What I didn't like was, that the book was in quite old fashioned English. The original dated form 1935 or so, so that shouldn't be a surprise, but still that made it quite hard to read at times. (It was the 2nd time in one week that I encountered the word 'scolded' in a book. Since I didn't know the word, I looked it up and added one more word to my English vocabulary...).

Summing it all up: I'm glad I came across this little book, I liked reading it.

The book will now travel to ZAS, who is next on the ABC roundabout list. This wasn't really my kind of book I must say but never mind.

Journal Entry 16 by ZAS at Thrapston, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Sunday, March 04, 2012

Recieved as the E book , part of the ABC International roundabout. I've never read and Ngaio Marsh, so I'm looking forward to trying this one, thanks.

Journal Entry 17 by ZAS at Thrapston, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I quite enjoyed this one - I've not read anything by Ngaio Marsh before and would definately try othere books by her after reading this one.

Read and ready to post on in the next couple of days

Journal Entry 18 by 3vie at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Sunday, April 01, 2012

Received yesterday. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks for sending.

Journal Entry 19 by 3vie at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Saturday, April 21, 2012

I didnt really enjoy this book. I didnt like any of the characters and I had to keep going back and re-reading parts of the dialogue as I couldnt understand who said what. Maybe it was because it was written so long ago (1935) and the language was different from that in a modern mystery, but I dont think I will read anything else by this author.

Journal Entry 20 by 3vie at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Saturday, April 21, 2012

Released 5 yrs ago (4/21/2012 UTC) at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom

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Off to the next reader in the ABC book roundabout ;0)

Journal Entry 21 by earthcaroleanne at Falkirk, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Curiously I was just looking into this author recently, so it's timing is perfect. Of course it has arrived with another bookray so I'm afraid I've got a little backlog at the moment.

Journal Entry 22 by earthcaroleanne at Falkirk, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

I'm sorry to say I didn't enjoy this. I felt it was written like a badly acted play. I did try to give the author the benefit of the doubt as it was set in a theatre but the dialogue just felt so stilted. The language was very dated and although I know it was written in the thirties, I don't get this feeling with other authors of the period. I agree with 3vie that I found myself constantly going back and re-reading because I hadn't understood the paragraph. I also did not like the phonetic spelling - I mean for goodness sake "eggzit"! I don't know if this was meant to be Inspector Alleyn's own voice or if he was putting it on. I got the impression he was acting the fool what with all the theatrical quotes and this behaviour did not endear him to me. I do actually have two books by this author on Mount TBR so she might get a second chance.

Journal Entry 23 by earthcaroleanne at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Friday, May 25, 2012

Released 5 yrs ago (5/31/2012 UTC) at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom

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On it's way in the ring.

Journal Entry 24 by Diane-Fraser at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 06, 2012

with me now. Not the sort of mystery I usually read by the look of the reviews given but as ever looking forward to trying a new author :)

Journal Entry 25 by Diane-Fraser at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Thursday, July 05, 2012

Released 5 yrs ago (7/7/2012 UTC) at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom

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posting on today :)

Not sure if I am 1 week behind or 3 weeks in front with this book but apologies either way.

This is a very quick book to read as it is less than 200 pages. Little too tame for my liking however it was nice to be introduced to this author and I did find it very entertaining.

Now the book is with me, thanks for sending, ahabraken, and for sharing, yorkshire-lass! Will be the next on my MTBR as it seems to be a little bit late already ;o)

23.09.2012 As promised I read this little book quickly so that it can travel on soon. Well, I have to agree with some of the others that the language obviously is kind of old-fashioned but nevertheless I could read this book more or less quickly. I liked the story and the mystery solving by the Chief Detective-Inspector - until the very end I was not totally sure who was the murderer!

Journal Entry 30 by elstaplador at Woking, Surrey United Kingdom on Saturday, September 29, 2012

I was thinking it was about time for letter E! I do enjoy Ngaio Marsh; can't remember if I've read this one before or not.

Journal Entry 31 by elstaplador at Woking, Surrey United Kingdom on Sunday, October 14, 2012

More of the same: theatrical murder told largely from the point of view of Nigel Bathgate. Trollerific prologue notwithstanding, I didn't guess the murderer, though wasn't particularly surprised by the revelation. I was rather intrigued by the tension between Inspector Alleyn and Stephanie Vaughan; I don't think I've seen him particularly interested by anyone other than Troy. I think I may need to give Marsh a rest for a few years; they do seem to be increasingly same-y.

Journal Entry 32 by elstaplador at To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Monday, October 15, 2012

Released 4 yrs ago (10/15/2012 UTC) at To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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Sending on to the next reader.

Journal Entry 33 by mafarrimond at Hawarden, Wales United Kingdom on Sunday, November 18, 2012

I have never quite take to Inspector Alleyn. A little old fashioned and a tad predictable but passed the time reasonably pleasantly.

Journal Entry 34 by mafarrimond at Hawarden, Wales United Kingdom on Sunday, November 18, 2012